The US Government Caused Me To Become Homeless Part 4

pstrong I discovered that citizens were sold homes that were not repaired as required by Title 7 USCS C.F.R. 1955.116. I was one of those citizens./strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/475/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Judith M. Hansel /p pI never expected that I would have to seek protection from another country when I purchased a home in Wisconsin that had been in a USDA housing program. But I discovered that citizens were sold homes that were not repaired as required by Title 7 USCS C.F.R. 1955.116. I was one of those citizens./p pThe first three reports in this series explained how I was defrauded by the US government; how I tried to remedy the fraud by making it public; and how I was jailed and threatened with involuntary commitment to the Winnebago Mental Institution when I refused to shut up. /p pI arrived at the Rainy River, Ontario border crossing at 10 AM on June 12, 1993. On June l4 I filed a claim for Convention Refugee status at the Canada Immigration Center in Thunder Bay. In order to gain refugee status, a person’s subjective fear must be based on objective events. I was fearful of involuntary commitment and my fear was based on my multiple arrests and violations of my U.S. Constitutional rights as well as my human rights. I had the documents that proved that these events had happened to me./p pThe Immigration Officers took my claim seriously and told me that I was eligible for a Convention Refugee hearing. That hearing took place four months later on October 6. I gave binders to the Immigration Refugee Board members that contained my documents. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board members told me that they would mail their decision to me./p pI received the IRB’s decision in late November. It denied me Convention Refugee status. The decision was a lie that confused my statements, ignored facts and stated events out of sequence. I appealed this decision to the Federal Court-Trial Division in Ottawa. The Canadian Justice Department did not reply within the time limit imposed by law./p pIn March 1994 the Enforcement Division of the Ministry of Immigration tried to deport me in violation of Canadian law. I was able to convince the Prime Minister’s office and the Minister of Immigration that it would be a documented miscarriage of justice if they deported me. My deportation was put on hold./p pIn June 1994 the Minister of Justice finally responded to my Appeal by requesting from the Court an extension of time. A retroactive extension of time was granted./p pAs this point I decided to leave Thunder Bay. Many non-official incidents happened to me in Thunder Bay, all of which are recounted in my book./p pI spent July and part of August in Sudbury and late August until October in Toronto. In December I moved to Niagara Falls, Ontario. I received the denial of my appeal in February and on June 9 was arrested. (It should be noted that in Canada an appellant needs to request permission to file an appeal. That request was denied which meant the Court never addressed the issues). I was deported without a hearing (which is required by the Immigration Act) on June 12, 1995, two years to the day from when I had first arrived. On June 13 I returned to Canada using another person’s Canadian ID. I traveled to Sudbury and, late in July, rode a Greyhound bus to Calgary. Since I had all the evidence necessary to prove that I was a Convention Refugee, I had no intention of just giving up. I left Calgary on October 3l and arrived in Lethbridge, where I continued to live under my Canadian identity./p pIn January 1996 I was arrested again. At my arraignment I refused to sign a Recognizance that stated that I had arrived in Canada on January 4. A RCMP officer committed perjury when he swore that I returned on January 4, when he knew I could prove that I had returned on June 13, 1995. The prison psychologist threatened to send me to the Psych Ward at Foot Hills Hospital if I did not sign the Recognizance. I signed the perjured document in order to stay out of a mental ward./p pI was deported on January 17 and arrived in San Francisco late on January 18. I rented hotel rooms until March 29 when I traveled to Sacramento for two weeks and then spent a few days in Seattle. I submitted an affidavit to the Alberta Court in Lethbridge that outlined my Convention Refugee case and the dates of my arrivals in Canada. My trial was set for April 22 and I planned to defend myself./p pI crossed the border into British Columbia on April 17, 1996, exactly 90 days after my deportation. I was unable to attend my trial in Lethbridge due to insufficient funds and the fear that Lethbridge authorities might return me to Wisconsin. I lived in Vancouver and a few towns on Vancouver Island until September 13, when I was arrested again. /p pAt a hearing with the Senior Immigration Officer in Victoria, I relayed my story to her. She said that I was eligible for a second Convention Refugee hearing. After several weeks with frustrating contacts with the Vancouver Canadian Immigration Center, I requested a change of venue to Ottawa. I arrived in Ottawa on February 27 for my March 20 Convention Refugee hearing. In addition to my evidence from the earlier hearing, I added the violations of my human rights that occurred while I lived in San Francisco./p pIn June I received the denial of Convention Refugee status and immediately filed a Request for Leave and for Judicial Review. Again the Attorney General did not respond within the legal time limit, moved for an extension of time, and received it from the Court. On September 25 the Registrar of the Court told me that my Request was denied./p pI packed up two days later and went to Sudbury where I was arrested on January 5, and deported again on January 17, 1998./p pI spent a week with my sons and their families in Maryland. Brian, the youngest, was in a chronic care hospital with a neurological-genetic defect that was terminal. When I visited him he told me to “go for it” when I told him about my latest deportation and my indecision about returning to Canada. That weekend, Pope John Paul II was in Cuba where he told the people to “work for human rights.” It seemed that I needed to go back to Canada if only to carry on a lost cause for human rights./p pSince I had not received the written decision from the Federal Court-Trial Division, I returned to Niagara Falls, Ontario on January 27, 1998. In February I received the Court’s decision that my Request for Leave was “dismissed.” There is no provision in Canadian law for “dismissing” a Request for Leave and for Judicial Review; a Request is either granted or denied./p pFeeling on firmer ground and knowing that all decisions made in my case violated the Immigration Act of Canada, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the 195l UN Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, I returned to Sudbury on May 1./p pOn November 13 I was arrested and on November 25 I was deported. An Immigration Adjudication officer threatened me with a criminal charge if I returned to Canada again./p pThis report is just the bare bones of my five and one-half years in Canada. I need to add four important facts:/p p-I have sent reports to the UN on at least a bi-monthly basis since 1994. I have received no response.br /br / -From 1989 to 1994, forty-five US citizens claimed Convention Refugee status in Canada. None was granted. What happened to these people?br /br / -The US has not signed the 1951 UN Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees.br /br / -The US has not signed the May 1976 UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights. br / /p pSince November 25, 1998, I refuse to be repatriated by: /p pRefusing to register to vote and refusing to votebr /br / Refusing to participate in the Censusbr /br / Refusing to file IRS forms (since 1992)br /br / Refusing to have a permanent addressbr //p pMy book, iEscape from America, An Expose of International Treachery/i, goes into greater detail than these reports. /p pGandhi said, “Non-cooperation with evil is a duty.” The only thing I can do now is refuse to cooperate./p pIn my final report I will provide readers with a personal look at homelessness in San Francisco.br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p